Man who said he was a vampire and had bomb arrested

Update: The device looked like a pipe bomb, but police say it was not a bomb.

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Update: Police say the incident began when the man walked into the Union Gospel Mission and threatened to blow it up.

He had the device taped to his wrist and was covered in duct tape. He said he wanted breakfast. But apparently not bacon and eggs.

He said he was a vampire and wanted to eat people. Staff asked him to leave, and the man then said he was a space cowboy and showed what looked to be a pipe bomb attached to his wrist.

He threatened to use the bomb, but was ushered out.

Police found him in the 500 block of Third Avenue standing in a doorway.

Officers from the SWAT team ordered him to lie down. He complied. Officers gave him surgical scissors, which he used to cut away the device.

Police arrested him. Detectives with the bomb squad took control of the device, which looked like a metal pipe with caps on either end.

Streets were reopened after 10 a.m. The 33-year-old suspect was being questioned and was to be booked into jail.

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Police took a man into custody in downtown Seattle on Friday morning after he lay face down on the sidewalk and had some sort of device taped to his left hand.

The man was dressed in black and the device had wires coming out it.

Police report that the man, who was in the 300 block of James Street, was taken into custody and that the device had been contained. Detectives with the bomb squad were screening him for other hazards and will check out the device.

The man, who police say threatened people and property, forced a closure of Third Avenue near James Street and limited access to the King County Courthouse nearby. He was first reported to police when he went to the Union Gospel Mission.

Brian Johnson, director of the men’s shelter at the Morrison apartments, a man walked into the shelter around 8:30 a.m., saying he was a vampire and needed food – and food was the people who were at the shelter, KING/5 reported.

Below is a KOMO/4 interview with Mike Johnson of the Union Gospel Mission: